Definining image of the last 50 years?

[Spike_1412]

Personally, I think this one:



Or this one:



But that's just me.

What do you think?

 

[Hyper]

umm, i'm going to go with the WTC one. People don't care about sports unless it relates to politics, like the US victory of the USSR in hocky during whatever war-ish thing that was lolll

 

[DJ BloodFrost]

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November 9th, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall. I rest my case.

 

[acdcrules04]

i'm going with Agent on this one

 

[Hyper]

i suppose this is where you get into the from who's point of view argument.

for most non-german teens the fall of the berlin wall isn't that big a deal. but to adults who remember what it was like with that wall in place, and german's, it's a big deal to them.

but the WTC 'incident' has struck closer to home with a lot of people. most american teens don't even remember the fall of the berlin wall (i was almost five months old when it fell) so it just depends from who's point of view.

now, from societies point of view, the berlin wall would most likely be a greater feat, because there are arguably more adults with an opinion on this than teens.

 

[LPGotLinkinPark]

I agree with Agent too.

That involves more of the whole world being at peace than 9/11 does.

Edit: Hyper, I don't remember the Berlin Wall coming down either, but I still think it had a greater impact than 9/11.

 

[DJ BloodFrost]

Lol, I should probably note that I wasn't attempting to belittle 9/11 or anything. My opinion is that the fall of the Berlin Wall brought some stability to the world market, not to mention let everyone in the world breathe easier knowing there wouldn't be a worldwide nuclear war. Essentially, I think the defining image of the last 50 years should be one that shows world progress. 9/11 doesn't exactly fit into that category IMO.

 

[Hyper]

trutru, 9/11 shows a sort of.. world regression heh

 

[Breakingthehabit_197]

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November 9th, 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall. I rest my case.

that was a great time in history, 9/11 was a very sad time in history

 

[Friðbjörn]

The fall of Die Mauer had a greater symbolic affect on the world rather than a practical one. It of course was the final coffin nail to the Cold war, but it also opened the gate to a united Germany, which still today, many West-Germans are not happy about. That meant bringing an unstable economy, and unemployment to the new united Germany, but before that, West-Germany was doin good. Nowadays, the united state, Germany, struggles with a high unemployment rate, and it recently took them a long time to form a new government, and one of the reasons is the unition (is that a word?) of the Germanies of old.

The last fifty years have been defined by this here:

http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/70b710c64abe032d0063fafd14ddb3a9.jpg

and lately by this:

 

[LPGotLinkinPark]

^ Eww I hate McDonalds. Definately not that please.

 

[Friðbjörn]

It was a symbol for the commercialization of the world (is that a word?) for the last two decades or so, I didn't litterally mean mcdonalds...

 

[LPGotLinkinPark]

Oh. I was thinking it was that everyone is getting fat off McDonald's or something. lol

 

[Clogz]

Here is mine...very famous photo.

http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/3111c9a6278482db4504b232a06e2080.jpg

September 5th, 1972. Members of the Israeli olympic team were held hostage by the paramilitary group Black September. After an idiotic and very sad excuse for a rescue made by German police, the hostages were eventually killed.

The signifigance...is this: It was the first major terrorist attack, covered on live television.

It brought the Olympics, for the first time, to the political spotlight - after this the natural goodwill between Olympic athletes died away.

And, it threw the Israel/Palistinian conflict into the world view.

For a much more complete story, check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Massacre

Steven Spielburg is coming out with a movie before the year's end about this, called 'Munich'.

 

[DJ BloodFrost]

I'd say Clogz has a good selection there. Were it not for that, most sovereign states would not have the counterterrorism teams that they have now and would be heavily underprotected against terrorist attacks. When this happened, all the governments started freaking out because they had no way to protect against such things adequately. Soon CT teams started popping up all over the world, all because of this.

 

[Darkangel72518]

Ooook why???

 

[woodyloveslinkin]

my definination remains in a black and white picture in the middle of a haunted house basement.

 

[Stenners]

Berlin Wall symbolising the end of the cold war, deffinatly

 

[Pyro_Storm]

Here is mine...very famous photo.
http://www.offtopic.forum/data/MetaMirrorCache/3111c9a6278482db4504b232a06e2080.jpg

September 5th, 1972. Members of the Israeli olympic team were held hostage by the paramilitary group Black September. After an idiotic and very sad excuse for a rescue made by German police, the hostages were eventually killed.

The signifigance...is this: It was the first major terrorist attack, covered on live television.

It brought the Olympics, for the first time, to the political spotlight - after this the natural goodwill between Olympic athletes died away.

And, it threw the Israel/Palistinian conflict into the world view.

For a much more complete story, check here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Massacre

Steven Spielburg is coming out with a movie before the year's end about this, called 'Munich'.

my german teacher was telling us about that, she lived there at that time and she said the german public didnt know anything of the sort was happening, but again thats like durring the Hullicost(sp?) when these camps were clearly there and the german people didnt want to see them so they werent there.

The movie 'Munich' looks very good.